"N-Natsu," Lucy whispered. She touched her cheek to find tears.

Out of shame and embarrassment, Lucy ran down the hall back to her room. She jumped onto her bright comforter and hid in the maze of sheets.


"Mommy, will you be alright?" A little blonde said.

"Mommy?" She repeated.

"Mommy? Mommy?!"

The girls father stood in the doorway watching silently. He looked quietly as his wife's consciousness fell to nothingness and his daughter cried over her.

Did he feel bad for his daughter? His own flesh and blood? No. Why would he? His daughter was the one who distracted Mrs. Heartfellia when she was driving. If anything, his young child deserved what happened. He left the room to go back to work. As if nothing happened.


A warm arm hugged my shoulders. I struggled to escape. I knew it was Natsu, and he didn't know about my mom.

The last thing I needed was the comfort. I never dealt with comfort well because I never got it. I only got the blame. After the crash, nobody liked me.

After the crash, nobody liked me. My father ignored me because he thought I was to blame, Aquarius never exactly took a liking to me. The only time I ever felt like I got attention was when I joined Fairy Tail.

"Please let go," I said in a soft and painful voice.

"No."

"Please." I leaned into his hold on me.

"No."


She shivered in my arms beside the fact that she was warm. Every now and then, a whimper would escape her mouth, but other than that there was silence.

I didn't bother to ask why she was crying, but it broke me to see her like this. I wanted to make her smile and keep her happy. She gave me a feeling I couldn't put into words. It was as if she concentrated all of the happiness in the world, and put it in me. This lucky guy.


Almost an hour had passed by the time I calmed down.

"Did you mean what you said last night?" I asked, now laying beside his lap.

"What do you mean?"

"N-nevermind."

A few moments passed until he said something.

"I-I did." He studdered.

I looked up at him with wide eyes still probably red from crying. "Really?" I said in disbelief.

At that point, I knew I could trust him with my secret. The reason that made me cry myself to sleep. My mother.

I told him everything. From how the crash happened, to my dad ignoring me, to how lonely I was. I poured my heart out for him. Something that was very new to me.

For the first time, I was able to open up to someone that I loved. He didn't force his way into my life, I let him in.


"I love my idiot."

"I love my idiot too."